ReadingRoom Steve Braunias on the visit of a genius 100 years ago today DH Lawrence arrived in New Zealand 100 years ago on this day, a genius ablaze with his red beard and his blue eyes and his head filled not so much with thought as a constant white heat, sailing into Wellington on a passenger ship bound from Sydney. He was 36 years old, an Englishman in a woollen suit and tie. He was gaunt, sickly. He arrived in bad weather. He travelled the world in search of warm climates – Sicily, Sardinia, New Mexico; Ceylon was a bit too hot, so he went to Australia.

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